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11:30 AM ET, July 7, 2013

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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.  —  WASHINGTON — In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation's surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects …
Washington Post:
Health insurance marketplaces will not be required to verify consumer claims  —  The Obama administration announced Friday that it would significantly scale back the health law's requirements that new insurance marketplaces verify consumers' income and health insurance status.
Discussion: Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and Instapundit
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Yuval Levin / National Review:
Obamacare's Invitation to Fraud  —  When the Obama administration announced last Tuesday that they would be delaying Obamacare's employer mandate and its associated reporting requirements by a year, many observers (myself included) noted that this could create problems for verifying eligibility for subsidies in the Obamacare exchanges.
Discussion: VA Viper and Doug Ross
Avik Roy / Forbes:
Not Qualified For Obamacare's Subsidies?  Just Lie — Govt. To Use ‘Honor System’ Without Verifying Your Eligibility  —  If you thought the delay in the employer mandate was bad news for Obamacare, just wait.  On Friday, Sarah Kliff and Sandhya Somashekhar of the Washington Post discovered …
Discussion: Power Line and americanthinker.com
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
In Wyoming, a Cheney Run Worries G.O.P.  —  LUSK, Wyo. — A young Dick Cheney began his first campaign for the House in this tiny village — population 1,600 — after the state's sole Congressional seat finally opened up.  But nowadays, his daughter Liz does not seem inclined to wait patiently for such an opening.
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
NTSB chief Hersman: San Francisco crash could have been worse  —  National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Deborah Hersman on Sunday said investigators were in the initial stages of their probe into the deadly crash of a Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport …
Discussion: Politico
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KTVU-TV:
Boeing 777 crashes while landing at SFO  —  Sponsored Links  —  SAN FRANCISCO —  An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 arriving from a flight South Korea crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport Saturday morning, bursting into flames, authorities said.
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Passenger jet crashes in San Francisco
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic Online:
Please Don't Be Satisfied With This Jobs Report  —  The labor market continues to be consistently, maddeningly mediocre.  —  Another month, another jobs report that's good, but not quite good enough.  —  Employers beat expectations in June by adding 195,000 new workers to their payrolls.
Fox News:
McCain: After thinking ‘long and hard,’ US should suspend aid to Egypt  —  Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain is calling on President Obama to suspend aid to Egypt after its military overthrew the country's government.  —  McCain, a member of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee …
Hamza Hendawi / bigstory.ap.org:
EGYPT: ELBARADEI'S APPOINTMENT PUT ON HOLD  —  You are here  —  Home » Mohamed Morsi » Egypt: ElBaradei's appointment put on hold  —  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's new president moved to assert his authority and regain control of the streets Saturday even as his Islamist opponents declared …
James Atlas / Opinionator:
Class Struggle in the Sky  —  The choice of “snacks” on my New York to Miami flight includes blue potato chips, a Luna bar, a packet of trail mix and — a selection I haven't been offered before — popcorn.  But it makes sense: the cabin already feels like a movie theater at the end of a showing …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Thom Hartmann: View from the left  —  Thom Hartmann may be the most popular progressive you've never heard of.  —  His nationally syndicated radio show draws 2.75 million listeners a week, he's a New York Times bestselling author and he hosts a nightly television show.
 
 
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After Ruling, States Rush to Enact Voting Laws
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Can libertarian populism save the Republican Party?
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending
 
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